Dancing About Architecture

...named from the quote "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, it's a really stupid thing to want to do", attributed variously to Elvis Costello, Brian Eno and I think Eleanor Roosevelt.

Saturday, January 28, 2017

007

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Just like James Bond, this blog WILL be back (soon)! Thanks! David

Friday, April 22, 2016

7 Worlds Collide: The Sun Came Out

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A while back (2001), Neil Finn (Crowded House) put together a temporary group of friends and associates to record an album and perform...

Monday, April 4, 2016

Classical Music for Kids? (and a cranky rant about CBC Radio)

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I didn't hear much classical music as a little kid; what I did hear came from Bugs Bunny cartoons and the Captain Kangaroo TV s...

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Tim Cheesebrow

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I hadn't heard of Tim Cheesebrow until my buddy Ken passed along an advance copy of his new CD "Crooked Lines". Now...

Monday, February 22, 2016

"I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990"

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A few posts back, I mentioned the return of 'cassette culture', and this compilation from 2013 is drawn from new age albums t...

Friday, January 15, 2016

Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age

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This piece by Gustav Holst was very comforting to me as my father was dying. You might not think so, because most of it depicts a long, slo...

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Smile, Smiley Smile, and Love and Mercy

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We watched the film "Love and Mercy" last night; as veteran Brian Wilson/Beach Boys fans, there wasn't much new inform...

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David: This blog was born when I started to cull my CD collection -- and then decided to write about the good stuff.

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